Edmund Burke

If researchers are to be believed, kids lose up to an entire grade level each year to "summer brain drain," wherein recently acquired knowledge oozes out of their minds and melts onto the pavement while they participate in such pointless activities as "play."

This actually explains a lot. We here at Words Work have been out of school for 16 summers, which puts us back at around kindergarten, knowledge-wise. So it's really no surprise that we can't get the lay/lie thing down.

This summer will be different. This summer we will gain knowledge. This summer we will keep our transitives separate and distinct from our intransitives. Also, we will wear...

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If researchers are to be believed, kids lose up to an entire grade level each year to "summer brain drain," wherein recently acquired knowledge oozes out of their minds and melts onto the pavement while they participate in such pointless activities as...